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Sinclair Lewis

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Curiosity Devil Dress God Grecian Modern Neither Retain Vestment Wear
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Being Contrive Four Greatest Hour Human Manner Mystery Praise Put Reaction Sex Twenty
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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Anyone Arrwe Bore Dead Else Long People Power Writer
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Discontent Facilities Happy Learn Make Most Other Tarin Trouble Work
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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Critical Given Gossip Protect Sensitiveness Unhappy Women
An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Bondage Business Church Doctrine Down Lot Millionaire Much Too
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Been Being Contentment Fact Gain Human Large Meditation Not Permanent Recover Upon Yet
And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Fellow Good Higher might Power Seem Semon Thing Time Touch
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
SINCLAIR LEWIS

Method Other People Take Talk Themselves Write Writer
As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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Admit Believe Bust Dearth Eternity Fun Life Loyal More Nice Possible Sometimes
Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Occupation Season Winter
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Escape Scientist Something Writer
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Dog My Sleep With

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